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:shock: Thats the sort of price it should be over here, shame it isn't.


Unfortunately its not that simple. The Oz dollar exchange rate is very weak.

Not sure how that works as i simply converted the UK price using the current exchange rate. I know it's not that simple but... you guys seem to ...

Just worked out the price we pay in Oz for a polo GTi in pounds. Works out to approx UKP11,000.

:shock: Thats the sort of price it should be over here, shame it isn't.

125bhp is pretty poor from a 1.6 engine, Honda get 160bhp from there VTEC engines and the SIR VTEC imports kick out around ...

As said previously it's overpriced and underspecced for the UK hot-hatch market. Surely you could of bought a Holden for the price you paid for your polo? Nice V8 power

lets see. Cheapest V8 commodore is $45,000. Cheapest Polo Gti is $27000.

Just worked out the price we pay in Oz for a polo ...

New for new the golf gti is around 4-£5,000 more than the polo gti. The problem is that it's overpriced and people would rather spend there money on something bigger and better. A fully loaded polo gti would cost the best part of £18,000+ which is used golf gti territory, it would also buy you ...

I am interested to know where you guys get your figures?

Looking at VW pricing it seems a basic 3 dr Gti Golf is UKP5000+ more than the base Polo GTi. I asssume that is still a fair whack of money over there. The Polo is also similarly priced to the Fiesta ST. In reality this is the market it is ...

How does the chassis cope with all that extra power though, I've heard that the GTI doesn't handle that well with the standard 150bhp where as the clio has a superb chassis that can handle the power

Its the torque thats the issue. The standard Gti has more torque far lower in the rev range than ...

Hi,

I have owned a Polo Gti 1.8T for about 3 months now. The benefits of living in Australia

A few points.

1. The 1.8T is very tight when new. Feels rather lethargic. It starts to loosen up nicely with about 1000km on the clock.

Once run in the 1.8T will put out around 95kw at the wheels. This ...